Portable gate-fence



(No Model.)

P. VILLARD.

Portable Gate-Fences.

No. 228,844. Patented Jun 15,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FiClEa PORTABLE GATE-FENCE.v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,844, dated June 15,1880.

Application filed March 16,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH VILLARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mount Eaton, in the State of Ohio, have inventedImprovements in Portable Gate-Fences, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a manner of bracing and supporting those fencesknown as portable gate-fences, and which are made up of a series ofpanels connected and supported in such a manner as to be readily takenapart and removed, each panel being handled as a unity. Y

My invention consists of a diagonal brace, the lower end of which issecured by a bolt or pin to a stake in the ground, while the upper endis held by a pin or bolt fixed in the vertical end bar of the panel, andalso by its end entering a notch cut in one of the longitudinal bars orboards of the panel.

My invention further consists of an improved form of hook or clampforfastening the panels to each other, said clamp being so bent as to forma convenient handle for operating the same.

Myinvention further consists of an improved mode of attaching the panelto intermediate or storm posts, hereinafter more fully described.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a fence embodying myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, showing mybrace and the manner of connecting the panels. Fig. 3 is a similar view,showing the intermediate post.

A represents the horizontal, and B the vertical, bars of a portablefencepanel. The vertical end bars have pins 0 projecting from theirlower ends into holes in the tops of short posts D, sunk into theground. A short distance from the fence, and immediately opposite thepost D, a short stake, E, is driven into the ground, to which a brace,F, is secured by means of a bolt or pin, 6. A pin or bolt, 1),projecting from the side of the end post or bar, B, passes through ahole in the upper end of the brace F, thus securely bracing the fence.

In order to prevent the brace F from slipping off orbeing otherwiseremoved from the pin 1), unless the fence is being removed, I form anotch, f, in the lower edge of one of the longitudinal bars A, just nextto the post B, for the reception of the upper end of brace F, as shown.Every other panel being supported and braced in this manner, theintermediate panels are secured to them by means of crankshaped hooks orclamps H, which, being screwed into the end bars, B, support theintermediate panels and hold them securely to the stationary ones. Theintermediate panels have one board slotted on each end, as at a, which,when the crankhooks H are in a horizontal position, allows the panel tobe placed in position on the hooks, after which, said crank-hooks beingturned through one quarter-circle, the panel is finally secured.

Between the end posts or bars, B, I attach an additional vertical bar,I, which is secured by another screw-clamp, K, identical with thoserepresented by H, to a short post, J, driven into the ground immediatelyadjoining it, as shown in Fig.3. The screw-clamps H K beingscrew-threaded at h and bent at h, so as to form a handle, enables theeasy and quick clamping of the panels without the need of extra tools.

It will be noticed that on account of the notches f the braces F cannotbe removed from the pins b until detached from posts E and elevated to ahorizontal position.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a portable gate-fence, the brace F, secured at its lower end to astake in the ground, and being transfixed at its upper end by the pin1), projecting from vertical bar 13, in com bination with notch f in thelongitudinal bars A, for the reception of the end of the brace,substantially as described.

2. In a portable gate-fence, the crank-shaped hooks or clamps H,screw-threaded at h, in combination with the slots to of thelongitudinal panel-boards A, and with the Vertical bars post supports DJ, braces F, stakes E, and B of the adjoining panel, as and for thepurpose crank-shaped clamps H K, all combined and I0 set forth. arrangedas set forth.

3. In a portable gatefence, the intermediate bar, I, and posts J, theformer being se- FRIEDRIUH L cured to the latter by means ofcrank-shaped Witnesses: clamps, substantially as shown and described.ROBERT REED,

4. A fence consisting of frame-panels A B, PHILIP FERNsELL.

